The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-03-18
NEWS AND oTuER ,orINGS.
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snow is vet five aud six feet deep
Adam Harck German puddler OF
Columbus, Ohio, aged fartv-fve, fatally
shot his wife on sunday night with a shot.
gun. lie was arrested.
"A woI kman at TIE Carson mint has dIs
covered that drill points heated to a cherry
red and tempered ny being driven into bar
OF lead, will bore through the hardest steel
or plate glass withou- perceptibiy bunting
"A Minnesota man offered to wage $50
that he would sleep all night in bed with a
smallpox patient and not catch the disease,
but after the money was up the legal au-
thorities prevented him from carrying out
his plans.
A San Francisco woman bought on
credit. without her husbands knowledge
p $3.50 seal skin sacquP. The husband re-
sisted payment, and the court ruled that he
was not liable, as a seal skin coat was not
necessary in that climate.
The House CnnrressIora Appertion-
ment c, mmIttee on Tuesday night agreed
to give Philadelphia six districts. a gain of
one. The Philadelphia re-apportionment
was also agreed upon, making ali of the six
districts Republican thus shutting Randall
out
Hank Hewitt. an old-timer in Arizons,
went Into a store in TLscon a few days
since, and after purchasing a vest ordered
his old one thrown away, but soon remem-
bered that he had left $3.50 In one Of the
pockets. He succeeded in finding $3.50 of
the amount
The Board of Pardous at Harrisburg, on
Tuesday, recommended the following par
dons Andrew Eprman, Lancaster, burg
larry; Daniel BersselI and Tom Bordner,
Northumberland, burglary; James Newman,
John J. johnson and eighteen others, Wash
inGton county miners, riot and conspiracy
On Saturday night the large furniture
establish ment in South Winiamsport, for
msrly the property of The Luppert & Kline
Furniture Company, but lately operated by
George Luppert on lease, was burned to
the ground. Loss about S75, 900 insurance,
$11 900. Loss on stock, SIS 600 insurance,
SIC, 900.
-DomInick Gray, a bod carrier. while
suffering from deliTium tremeDs on Sunday
night, attempted to beat out the brains of
his wife and seven months-Old daughter
with an iron pot. The woman and infant
are now lying in Roosevelt Street Hospital
and the child cannot recover. Gray, who
bears bad reputation, is in custody.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Railroad has decided to send propositions to
all ne wspapers in their territory for adver-
tjsing the railroad based upon payment for
the same, either !n mileage tickets, in cash,
or IN both. 1t is probable that the other
roads will follow suit and that country edi-
tors will still be able to take free rides in
spite of the Interstate Commerce bill.
Mrs. J j. Stroll of Harrisburg, wife Of
a freight engineer on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, met with an accident on Wedues-
day of last week which rendered her totally
blind, with little hopes of restoration of
sight. The lady has been blind of one eye
from childhood, and on Saturday, while cut.
ting wood, a fragment flew into her face.
striking her perfect eye and causing It's loss.
The lady is young married woman and the
case is very sad one.
On Sunday last a prominent citizen OF
Upshur county, W. ", named JESSE Lem
Ons, who for years had been foremost in re-
ligious services, was found dead Sunday
morning a short distance from his house
with his head half blown off. He had start
ted for q neighbours the day before, giving
his wife his pocket book. From what was
learned afterward. be had taken his gun
with him, and to make sure work had prac.
ticed for some time Dy shooting at a mark.
Then, placing his gun with the muzzle under
his ctin, fired by using small twig His
not returning home caused a search with
the above esult. Domestic trials have
worried him for years.
Mrs. William Bailey wife of a farmer
living near Ripley, Erie county, left her
family at the breakfast table "Wednesday
morning of last week, and went outdoors
Not returning, her husband left the table
twenty minutes later to see what had be-
come Of her. In lot adjoining the farm
house he saw a COW rolling and trampling
on the apparently lifeless body of his wife
Bailey went to her rescue and was driven of
by the infuriated animal, which returned to
the woman again, kneelng on her and rend-
Ing her clothing with its horns. A gang of
farm-hands with pitchforks attacked the
COW, but were scattered by the brutes furi-
GUS charges. The cow was shot and killed
Mrs. Bailey was alive when dragged from
under the dead animal, but she was mangIed
and torn almost beyond recognition and she
died without recovering consciousness.
The leading coal operators Of the Mo
nongahela and KanaWha rivers have under
consideration a scheme to organize a pool or
syndicate to control the entire river output
of coal from the head waters Of tie Monon-
gahela down to New Orleans. 1t is propos-
ed to conduct the pool on the same principle
as the coke syndicate. The larger operators
are to form the pool The coal produced by
the small operators is to be sold ~ ,ue coal
pool and all risks and losses are 70 be divid.
ed propOrtiOnately. The matter has been
discussed but no definite action has been
taken. If the pool is formed 1t is said that
uniform price for coal will be established
for the product of the Pittsburg mines and
also for the Kanawha district. AS the pool
would control all of the coal of these two
districts, there would be no cutting of prices,
but fair profit would be expected from
each years output.